Final soccer day

Today is the last day for the British Soccer camp. Featured today were country flags, and Ellen and Max made a chocolate sheet cake decorated like the Irish flag. There was competition for the smallest & largest flag, and for the baked goods flags, but they gave priority to cakes that were baked without parental help (Max only helped with the sprinkles), and one of the girls won. Max was disappointed not to win, but later, when they actually ate the cakes, our cake was very popular. Most of our (very large) cake got eaten (unlike most of the others). So while there was no formal competition, I think we were at least strong contenders in that category. 

All that was left

Max also participated in the "tell a joke" competition. His joke:  Knock-knock! Who's there? Interrupting cow! Interrup ........ Mooo!  

He didn't win that competition either.


It is quite chilly this morning - the car thermometer registered 37 degrees coming to camp! But the sun is strong, and with a jacket, it's fine. BUT - later I think that for the climax of the camp they'll bring in fire engines that spray the kids with the water hoses. Brrrrrr!

Max with Coach Josh

Coach Josh and Coach Niall address the troops

Water fight!

Getting doused!

I resolved a car question this morning. I called Brattleboro Subaru this morning and asked about the appointment I have there on July 29th to have work done on the valve springs - which is a Subaru recall and is done free of charge. My thinking was that doing that work and fixing the timing chain case oil leak involved very similar labor and might save me money. I was right. The service rep said it absolutely made sense to wait, and that it shouldn't be a problem if we kept the oil level up, which we are accustomed to doing anyway. So that is now the plan - we won't invest any more money in this car, hope it gets us home ok and have that  recall work done and then look into possibly getting a new car, or waiting until next June when we would have our next inspection and deciding then whether to buy a new car or put in a new catalytic converter.  Time will tell whether that's a good plan, but at least it's a plan!

This weekend we are going to begin packing and moving in earnest. O boy!

One last photo: Across the street from where we turned in to the soccer camp was this restaurant. We thought - only in Wyoming!

We haven't tried it!